Letters to the Editor
Christopher1988
Published Letters: 567 Editor's Choice: 40
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It’s Obama’s Fault
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who else could be at fault? Don’t forget that, as the first line of this article tells us, there are members of the press and there are partisans. Very different entities. So Salon, as a part of the press, cannot be partison.
The thing about Salon is that’s it’s even-handed. No, it’s better than that. In the quote about maybe it’s Obama and Hillary’s fault, Obama’s name is highlighted in blue. You almost don’t notice her there. Just like you almost don’t see her in the photo. Because Salon clearly favors Obama, so they have his name attached to a link, and they give him pride of place in their photo-ops. So when Salon suggests a fault in Obama, you know it’s an accusation worth considering.
And really, who is this person, who thinks he’s so great? What is Mr. High-and-Mighty trying to get away with when Hillary Clinton, a woman of the people, a compatriot of the working class, is just trying to run a good, clean election?
And she’s doing well. Almost double digits in Pennsylvania. You can’t argue with that. You can’t even thinking about raising the issue of the majority of races which have preceded this, in which she’s lost. For Obama to suggest such a thing is hubris.
I mean, he’s Hollywood. He surrounds himself with stars. Hillary would never do that. And we all know that back in his day, her husband would brook no conversation with that crowd. If they tried, if say, Barbra Steisand or Michael Douglas or Paul Neman or Steven Speilberg or Rob Reiner or Will Smith or Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy or Jennifer Aniston or George Clooney or Bonnie Raitt Brooke Shields or some other such persons tried to raise money for him. If they tried to do it for him, why he would have turned those phoney-boloneys in Hollyweird down flat. And her actions flow from the same purity of motive.
While Obama, he's got money from all these stars and singers and things you could fill the Grand Canyon with. He’s got big names supporting him. And donations from just regular people too, but let's not talk about them because the regular people really belong to Hillary, no matter who they've voted for in the majority of state nominations so far. He’s got most of the wins, too.
Maybe it's not all his fault. Maybe it just went to his head. A guy gets in that position and, you know, he gets a little too big for his britches. He thinks the race belongs to him. And that’s wrong. It’s snooty. It may be un-American. It probably is un-American. You know whose church he used to go to.
Hillary’s American. She’s women and whites and hispanics and working class people. I bet, being from Illinois, living all that time in Arkansas, she’s a person of the people. That’s why she fled them to be a senator in New York. So she could serve the working people in the heartland of America. That’s why she connects with them.
She’s so American, she can’t even spin a story. Couldn’t if she tried. It backfires on her. She’s just honest, that’s what she is. Nothing else seems to work for her. She’s humble, too. Couldn’t bring herself to push for a re-vote early on in Michigan and Florida. Which she clearly would have won had she done something about it. But she doesn’t like to make a fuss. She just went about doing those daily little tasks a person of the people does. And then when she had time to stop and think about it, well darn but it was too late. And you know, the Florida Democrats even said they didn’t want to vote again if they got the chance. Even though they voted for her and their votes could help her get into office, they didn’t want to do it again. Which is plain selfish.
But at least that's more understandable than weird Texas, which is so weird Obama won there. Weirdos. Bet they vacation in Hollywood. You know they live right there next to Mexico. Just how American middle class can they be?
It’s nice that Shapiro tries to put the blame firmly on Hillary. But we can’t let him do that. It’s clearly Obama. He’s the fly in the ointment. And despite Salon’s pretense at bias, which is a cloak for their subtle pro-Obama articles and editorials, we’ve got to shout out loud that Obama has done this.
Hopefully the superdelegates will hear our cries and vote for Hillary. Of course, she’ll be called president of North Korea or somesuch. She’s always had to deal with these smears. It’s never easy. But she does it. She resiliently marches forward, beyond popular votes, beyond delegate votes. To victory. Because she cares about the working class. And women. And Hispanics. And she wants to serve them. Humbly.
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You can always trust a post about the working class
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in which the working class is referred to as "them." That's real insider information. Like listening to your oldest white uncle tell you what's really up with minorities.
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AKA Smith,
[Read the article: Whose fault is the Clinton-Obama stalemate?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My dad was raised in the Depression. My mom grew up poor. I've got plenty of working class relatives. I've worked as a waiter and held my fair share of other service industry jobs. For all that, I sure don't pretend to know the thoughts of the great blue-collared mass of American workers. I wouldn't denigrate any group with the presumption that I can read their collective personality. Even the groups I belong to.